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Provenance; presentation bookplate from the Birmingham Medical Institute, being presented by Mrs. Naughton-Dunn. Series; Oxford paperbacks. Physical description; x, 276 p. ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Amity Street -- House calls -- 1911 medicine -- 1933 medicine -- 1937 internship -- Leech, leech, et cetera -- Nurses -- Neurology -- Guam and Okinawa -- Itinerary -- NYU pathology -- NYU Bellevue medicine -- The board of health -- Endotoxin -- Cambridge -- The governance of a university -- Rheumatoid arthritis and mycoplasmas -- MSKCC: the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre -- Olfaction and the tracking mouse -- Illness -- Scabies, scrapie -- Essays and Gaia. Subjects; Thomas, Lewis (1913-1993). 20th Century. Physicians - United States - Biography. Physicians - Personal Narratives. Physicians - Biography. History of Medicine. Genre; Biographies.
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Lewis Thomas was a physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Medical School, he was the dean of Yale Medical School and New York University School of Medicine, and the president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute. He wrote regularly in the New England Journal of Medicine, and his essays were published in several collections, including The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, which won two National Book Awards and a Christopher Award, and The Medusa and the Snail, which won the National Book Award in Science. He died in 1993.
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